495-406 BC, Greek Tragic Poet
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles – [Forgiveness]
There is no success without hardship.
Sophocles – [Success]
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles – [Conscience]
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles – [Deeds and Good Deeds]
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles – [Fear]
Truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles – [Truth]
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles – [Leaders and Leadership]
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles – [Prosperity]
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles – [Wisdom]
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him…
Sophocles – [Wonder]
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